What is education?

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Principle, Method, Curriculum: Understanding Caroline von Heydebrand’s Curriculum in Context

Apr 25th

Watch Out! I’m Going to Question the Need for Weekly Faculty Meetings!

Mar 1st

No White Men: Teaching U.S. History as an Experiment in Inclusion

Feb 25th

Fealty? Really? Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy

Oct 8th

How the Future Can Save Us now available as an e-book

Jun 14th

Time, Teaching, and “Main Lesson” in the First Waldorf School

Mar 28th

In Favor of a Four Day School Week

Mar 22nd

An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner’s Six Basic Exercises

Mar 16th 2

My new book: How the Future Can Save Us

Dec 29th 1

How do we know it’s 5783? How did they?

Oct 3rd

Yikes! Tema Okun’s “White Supremacy Culture”

May 1st 1

Beyond Belief

Dec 11th 1

My Daughter’s Teacher: A Tale of Talent and Trust

Mar 15th 2

Steiner's World: Supersensible, Not Supernatural

Dec 9th 1

Remote Teaching in a High School During a Pandemic

Oct 20th

Do Plants and Minerals Have Rights, Too?

Jun 9th

Our Highest Endeavor Must Be...

May 30th

Preserving Juiciness: The Challenges of Ahriman and Lucifer

May 27th

True Androgyny, True Humanity: Gender, Sexuality, and Polarity

May 5th 2

Quilting Ladies and Fighting Gnomes—Story and Character

Apr 23rd 1

Chasing Truthiness: A Comparison of Dogma and Conspiracy Theory

Apr 20th 1

Challenges (and Possible Rewards) of Distance Learning in Waldorf Schools

Apr 11th 3

Truly Human: Sphinxes and Tetramorphs

Dec 6th

What is Anthroposophy?

Nov 27th 1

Afterimages: What Happens to Us When We Stare at Glowing Blue Screens?

Oct 7th 2

What is education?

The distance between an education for a job in the real world and an education that aims to help students become as fully human as possible seems immense. I spend time thinking about this and other issues of teaching and learning. Here's some of what I think.